Lloyd's Law Reports

Professor Robert Merkin KC; Dr Johanna Hjalmarsson

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KERR v. WHIMSTER & CO., LTD.

(1949) 83 Ll.L.Rep. 399

KING'S BENCH DIVISION.

Before Mr. Justice Hilbery.

Negligence-Invitee-Accident on board ship-Obstruction-Duty of occupiers to provide safe premises and safe means of access-Personal injuries sustained by plaintiff coal trimmer in course of his employment in defendants' ship- Hatch covers piled on deck-Alleged necessity for plaintiff, on leaving ship, to step on hatch covers-Collapse of pile, plaintiff being thrown to deck- Claim brought at common law - Whether defendants had failed to provide safe premises and safe means of access-Onus of proof.

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